Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) Section-Women During the CW and yet he was admired

and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership

and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless

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Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (Roy) Section-Women During the CW and yet he was admiredby Michael Roy During the antebellum period, several abolitionist figures, including William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator; Susan Paul, an African American primary school teacher; Henry Clarke Wright, a white reformer; and Frederick Douglass, the internationally renowned activist, consistently appealed to the sympathies of children against slavery. In 1835, Garrison proclaimed, If . . . we desire to see our land delivered from the curse